Polling for four Lok Sabha seats and six assembly by-elections commenced in Himachal Pradesh, with 62 candidates in the fray, including notable figures like Anurag Thakur, Anand Sharma, and Kangna Ranaut. The campaign was marked by extreme heat and sharp personal attacks, with both main parties intensifying their rhetoric.
Polling for four Lok Sabha seats and six assembly by-elections began across Himachal on Saturday morning. As many as 62 candidates, including 37 for Lok.
Workers of both the Congress and BJP started mobilizing their voters early in the morning to reach the booths but rain played a spoilsport and polling picked up as the day progressed and the weather improved, they said.